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MUSE Project Acronyms and Abbreviations The following table is intended to help you find your way around the MUSE project:
Acronym meaning remarks
| AI | Action Item |
| ADC | Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector |
| AIT | Assembly, Integration and Testing |
| AIP | Astrophys. Institute Potsdam |
| AO | Adaptive Optics |
| AOT | ESO Adaptive Optics Team consortium partner |
| ATH | Auxiliary Telescope Hall |
| BFD | Back Focal Distance |
| CAN | Controller Area Network |
| CCD | Charge Coupled Devices |
| CDR | Conceptual Design Review |
| CFC | Continuous Flow Cryostat |
| CGR | Critical Gate Review validation of the complete design before manufacture |
| CRAL | Centre Recherche Astron. de Lyon |
| CLG | Calibration Light Guides |
| CLS | Calibration Light Sources |
| CU | Calibration Unit |
| CUE | Calibration Unit Electronics |
| CTE | Coeffcient of Thermal Expansion |
| DoF | Degrees Of Freedom |
| DV | Detector Vessel |
| ECU | Electronic Control Unit |
| EE | Ensquared Energy |
| ETH | Eidgen. Tech. Hochschule Zurich |
| ESO | European Southern Observatory |
| FDR | Final Design Review |
| FLW | Field Lens Window |
| FMA | Focusing Mirror Array |
| FO | Fore Optics |
| FOV | Field of View |
| FS | Field Splitter |
| FSep | Field Separator |
| GALACSI | (MUSE adaptive optics system) |
| IAG | Institute for Astrophysics G”ttingen |
| ICD | Interface Control Document |
| ICE | Instrument Control Electronics |
| ICH | Instrument Control HardwareS |
| ICS | Instrument Control Software |
| IDA | Image Dissector Array |
| IDS | Instrument Detector System |
| I/F | Interface |
| IFU | Integral Field Unit |
| IQ | Image Quality |
| IMS | Instrument Main Structure |
| ISS | Image Slicer Subsystem |
| ISSTAT | ISS Tests and Alignment Tool |
| LAOMP | Laboratoire d’Astrophysique Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LATTP | Lab.d’Astrophys,Obs.Midi-Pyrenees |
| LCU | Local Control Unit |
| LN2 | Liquid nitrogen |
| MAIT | Manufact., Assembly, Integrat. Testing |
| MIA | Manufacturing Item Acceptance |
| MUSE | Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer |
| NA | Not Applicable |
| NAR | Nasmyth Adapter/Rotator |
| NFM | Narrow Field Mode |
| NGC | Next Generation Controller |
| NP | Nasmyth Platform |
| NTCCD | Next Generation Technology CCD |
| ODT | ESO Optical Detector Team consortium partner |
| PAC | Preliminary Acceptance Chile |
| PAE | Preliminary Acceptance Europe |
| PBS | Product Breakdown Structure |
| PDR | Preliminary Design Review |
| PGR | Preliminary Gate Review Validation of feasibility and performance (similar to PDR) |
| PM | Progress Meeting |
| PSF | Point Spread Function |
| PSM | Pupil Slit Mask |
| RD | Reference Document |
| SCP | Service Connection Points |
| SPS | Spectrograph System |
| SGR | Specification Gate Review Validation of input data. First global design and analysis |
| SRO | Splitting and Relay Optics |
| S/S | Sub System |
| TBC | To Be Confirmed |
| TBD | To Be Defined/Determined |
| UT | Unit Telescope |
| VLT | Very Large Telescope |
| VCS | Vacuum Cryogeny System |
| VPHG | Volume Phase Holographic Grat. |
| WFM | Wide Field Mode |
| wrt | With respect to |
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